by kozak6 » Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:24 am
I stayed with the family at our cabin in the forest two weekends ago. My father might have taken some pics on his cell phone.
Last weekend, we went shooting. It was fun. I brought my CZ52 pistol, my Mosin Nagant M91/30, and my Ruger 10/22. My brother brought his Ruger 10/22 and his Mosin Nagant M44, my brother's friend brought his Bryco pistol and maybe something I forgot, and my neighbor brought his Ruger 10/22 (it's a popular gun in America) and his Thompson/Center single shot rifle.
My CZ52 ran perfectly. It's really a wonderful pistol. The main problem, though, is finding ammo for it in the first place.
We had problems with the 50 round magazine for the 10/22 my brother bought, though. It's absurdly difficult to load, to the point where your thumbs will bleed before you get 20 rounds into it. Also, the front locking point on the magazine actually broke off in my 10/22, and I had to use my neighbor's Leatherman to pry it out.
My M91/30 also has a chamber burr. I tried to polish it out, but I didn't do a good enough job. Fired cases really tend to stick in the chamber, to the point where I have to use violent force to get them to extract.
Also, a .22-250 hollow point will literally explode a 5 gallon water container (that's about 19 liters). It's quite a sight.
My brother's friend's Bryco pistol had some severe problems, as well. It's a rather cheaply made pistol. Most of the pistol is actually made out of zinc alloy. It double feeds, fails to extract, stovepipes, fails to fire (I think the striker follows the slide sometimes), and the slide will actually come partways off sometimes. The trigger pull is absolutely horrid, but the sights are good and the pistol is actually accurate when it fires.
And then when we were done shooting, we did some 4-wheeling. That was awesome.
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